Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 240 People should not feel ashamed of their talents.

Sunan inspected the four-times-ascended tree beings with satisfaction. Expecting these tree beings to improve themselves like Vasilyan was probably impossible; these war tree beings were like people who had just woken up.

Moreover, it will still take some time before they completely digest the potion.

These tree-men have a strength and physique of 7, but their speed is only 2, just like the ground golems.

While it's fast enough for ordinary humans, it's a bit slow for opponents of the same level.

The number 7 is the standard number for Storm Knight.

However, these are just extras, because the real important thing about the War Tree Treants is their ability to cast plant magic.

All the spiritual and magical power of these ancient war trees are above 80.

而且这些战争古树，在魔药之中，已经固化了七个植物学魔法——0.7环【点化小型树人】、0.5环【树根缠绕咒】、0.7环【战争投掷】、0.5环【生命治癒术】、0.7环【树人护盾】、0.5环【自然之语】、0.5环【动物沟通】。

Transforming a small tree into a tree person is a temporary process that turns a tree into a tree person, which will return to its original state after one hour.

Root entanglement is a specialty of oak wizards, while war throwing involves plucking a branch from the canopy and hurling a tree spear into the distance, possessing immense destructive power.

Life Healing is a technique that uses natural magic to accelerate the life recovery rate of a single unit.

The Treant Shield, on the other hand, forms a natural energy shield to block enemy attacks.

The five spells are control, summoning, damage, healing, and defense.

Once you've gathered all the potion ingredients to create the Tree of Knowledge Treant, the Tree of Knowledge will also be a well-balanced entity with five spells, each specializing in a particular area.

The Language of Nature and communication with animals allows each War Treant to communicate with flowers, trees, and animals in the forest, thus establishing communication with the entire forest.

In this way, the entire forest will become the eyes and ears of Su Nan.

Because Su Nan can communicate with the forest through the Tree People and give orders to the woodlands and animals in Peter's territory.

Once his five-stage knowledge tree is fully transformed, it will be easier to control the entire forest in his territory.

Su Nan gave orders to the ancient war trees: "I have cultivated a hundred acres of black soil in the Four Seasons Garden and planted ginseng, astragalus, sage and other plants that I often use as ingredients for my magic potions on it."

"You will first send five treants to take care of my magic field in the Garden of the Four Seasons. As for the other five treants, I need you to leave this secret realm and enter my territory, to go to the forest in Peter's territory, to communicate with all the trees and make them all stand on my side."

As a wizard lord, one should not only rule over the humans in one's territory, but also over all the plants, trees, and animals within that territory.

These should all be mine!

Just as Su Nan said in his declaration of war against the underground city, everything within his territory—in the sky, on the ground, and on the surface—should be loyal to him.

Moreover, having trees and plants on your side has another great advantage.

It will be more difficult for the next energy world to invade its territory again.

The ancient war trees bowed deeply to Su Nan. "Wizard Lord, master of the forest, we will obey all your orders."

"The forest should rightfully be ruled by you, and we assure you that all the trees on your land will stand by your side."

Southern Jiangsu incorporated them into the wolf pack effect.

Immediately, the War Tree Man discovered that the composition of Peter's territory was indeed complex—werewolfs, stonemen, death knights, gargoyles, and even insect swarms, it seemed to have everything.

A war-torn ancient tree said, "So, even the stones must pledge allegiance to the great wizard master."

An ancient war tree was somewhat afraid of the arcane swarm. "When I'm sleeping, I often feel insects gnawing at my body."

"Those bugs are terrifying."

Jinx protested amidst the wolf pack effect, stating that the arcane swarm would not eat them and that the treants should not worry.

Jinx stated that the Zerg swarm has been relentlessly attempting to devour the black hole creatures beneath Peter's capital city.

The swarm is seeking out more challenging food sources.

Unfortunately, so far, black hole creatures have actually been consuming more Zerg...

The ancient war tree-man scratched its crown with hands made of tree branches. "We're not so easy to eat either..."

Su Nan then selected five ancient war tree spirits and brought them to the surface, to the forest of Peter's territory.

People from ancient war-torn trees strolled through the forest with people from southern Jiangsu.

A war-torn tree spirit excitedly pointed to a sparrow in the distance and exclaimed, "Oh, a bird! I finally see a bird! How can a tree not have a bird's nest as decoration?"

"Sparrow, come here quickly and build your nest on my head."

Immediately, the sparrow perched on the beech tree ahead was so frightened that it flew away.

Another ancient tree spirit said to him, "You should be more patient; you're scaring away all the small animals."

Su Nan looked at them and said, "In short, you will be the ones to communicate with the flowers, plants and trees in my territory and make them pledge allegiance to me."

The five ancient war trees bowed and bent over to Su Nan, saying, "Yes, Master Wizard."

Meanwhile, in the evening, after returning to the castle, Su Nan went to the second floor, to a relatively secluded area, which was Julia's bedroom.

Julia Peter was the closest relative to herself in the Peter family.

When Su Nan learned from Bloom that Julia could see ghosts and possessed wizarding talents, he remembered this.

Although there isn't much difference, it's always better to support a wizard apprentice from the same family than to find one from outside.

Julia was extremely surprised to see Su Nan come in, because Su Nan was always busy and would never come to her place.

Of course, Julia was also very happy that Su Nan was able to come here for the first time.

Julia raised an eyebrow at Su Nan and smiled, "Cousin, I didn't know you were coming over this evening, so I didn't even prepare a cup of tea."

"What made you decide to come over today?"

Su Nan waved his hand and said, "I don't drink tea much; it's too agitating. The coffee bean drinks that have been shipped from the south lately are actually quite good."

In fact, if people drink too much tea, they are prone to theophylline poisoning, and then they are easily agitated and irritable. Therefore, violent incidents, arguments and fights tend to occur more frequently in teahouses.

It's just that because the symptoms of this are much less obvious than those of getting drunk, many people don't notice it.

However, if drinking tea causes your heart rate to become abnormal, it means there is already a problem.

Julia nodded. "I see. Su Nan, you're always so disciplined."

"Today, when I held a tea party in the castle, some noble ladies were wondering when they would meet someone who could make their hearts flutter."

Julia and Sunan walked together to the tea room specially prepared for her inside Peter Castle. She recalled, "They were very curious about what kind of woman could move someone like Sunan Peter."

Su Nan smiled slightly.

The atmosphere is always so relaxed when I'm with family members who are the same age as me.

Julia said, "However, don't pay too much attention to what those noble girls say. In my opinion, they just want to get information about your preferences from me so they can have a chance to become a countess."

Su Nan nodded and said, "At my age, there's no need to rush this matter for now."

"Julia, I heard that you've been seeing ghosts lately."

Julia fell silent, her face pale, as if she were terrified of those things.

Su Nan tapped his fingers on the table and said, "Can you tell me your thoughts on those ghosts?"

Julia bit her lip and said, "I'm terrified. Not just because of the ghosts, but also... the Church of Storms says that after death people go to God's Kingdom, but if they do evil or don't believe in God, they can only go to the Wall of the Unbelievers and suffer eternal torment."

"But... now those ghosts are all over this land."

"I was very scared. I felt my faith was wavering, so I went to our uncle, Father Louis, hoping to get an explanation from him so that my faith might be strengthened again."

"But Uncle Louis told me that perhaps what the Storm Church was promoting wasn't necessarily true, and seeing is believing."

Julia Peter lowered her head and said, "And so, I fell into complete chaos. Now I can only try not to think about these things and immerse myself in busy social interactions. Whenever I'm alone, I can't help but think about those... blasphemous issues."

"Oh my god. Cousin, do you think I'm cursed?"

"What wrong have I done to be abandoned by the Storm God? Cousin, won't I bring shame upon our Peter family? You are now the Storm Lord; if my faith falters, then..."

Su Nan tapped the table and said, "I understand what you're thinking now."

"What if I said that those wandering spirits, in a sense, are kept by our family?"

Julia Peter's pupils suddenly contracted, and she immediately looked up at Su Nan.

"Family...of..."

Su Nan said, "Julia, there's no need for people to feel ashamed because they have doubts in their hearts."

Julia said, "The Church of Storms says... one cannot contemplate God... one cannot tempt God. One must keep one's mind pure, as innocent as a baby, in order to receive the praise of the God of Storms..."

Su Nan tapped the table with his fingers and laughed, "The ability to question things and explore the truth and laws behind them is the most precious quality of mankind."

"Julia Peter, you don't need to be ashamed of your talent. Your questioning mindset is a valuable asset, and it prevents you from blindly following others."

"Go with the flow."

"Julia, if you wish, I can lead you into a world that questions the Storm God and the Church."

Su Nan handed her a magic book. "You can refuse or accept; I'm only giving you one chance to choose."

"Once you turn to the first page of this book, there is no turning back, because it is impossible for a person to pretend that he is still in that narrow cave after seeing a wider world."

"If you refuse, you can continue your daily routine of having tea parties with your friends, searching for your Mr. Right, day after day. But if you accept... the truth is dangerous."

"Your past will be completely gone."

Julia looked at Su Nan, at her cousin who was both strange and familiar, and was somewhat at a loss. "Su Nan, you..."

Su Nan said, "I have something to do, so I'll be leaving now. It's okay if you refuse; you're still family to me, and blood ties can't be severed. But you'd better not mention this to anyone else."

Actually, now that I'm a first-ring wizard, I can act without much restraint. Besides, with Borgia Frederick around, anyone who dares to question me is just asking for trouble.

As long as Borgia Frederick insists that he is a devout Storm Lord, even the Archbishop of the Storm Church will have to give him face.

After Su Nan left, Julia Peter's gaze involuntarily fell on the magic book. Suddenly, her pupils shrank as she saw that her hand had somehow ended up on the magic book.

The spellbook is called the "Cave of All Spirits Meditation Method".

For Sunan's potion-making system to mature, it needs some potion-making wizard apprentices to come out and validate their path; otherwise, if he has to walk it alone, it can only be called Sunan Peter's path.

It was as if the Oak Wizard had seen the quadruple spell that Sunan had once used, and instead of praising the quadruple spell, he praised Sunan Peter.

The excellence lies not in the extraordinary spellcasting technique of Quadruple Casting, but in the person of Sunan Peter.

At the time, the Oak Wizard determined that the quadruple spellcasting was essentially a special spellcasting technique built upon Sunan Peter's talent, and was not worth replicating or repeating for future generations to learn.

Furthermore, if Julia can truly succeed in her Potions path and become her second wizard apprentice in Potions, she will be able to concoct some potions in the future.

I've gained another free source of labor.

Of course, this is probably a long time from now. Even if Julia gets her own potion resources and is able to concoct potions that will help her, it may still be a very long time.

This is an investment that requires a long wait and may result in a loss due to Julia's lack of talent.

But this is a step that Sunan Peter, as a first-ring wizard, is bound to take.

As a certified wizard, it was impossible for him not to train some wizard apprentices.

Even if I don't have time now, I will gradually collect some when I have time in the future.

Julia sighed. "I never imagined my cousin would actually become a wizard, just like the rumors said. Now, the Peter family is practically a wizarding family."

She was clever and guessed the truth. "So, my cousin discovered my wizarding talent. It must have been during Mr. Blom's conversation with me that he found out."

She recalled Su Nan's words—"No one should feel ashamed of their talent."

She opened the magic book, and upon seeing the first line of text, a strong, distinctive smile suddenly appeared on her lips.

Perhaps, a spirit of rebellion and questioning flows in the blood of every member of the Peter family.

Julia Peter's eyes gleamed with an unusual light. "This is the world I want."

"I don't want to be like those aristocratic ladies, living the same life every day."

She read about the witch's deeds recorded in the meditation method written by Su Nan, and her mind was captivated. She realized that becoming a witch meant being able to roam the world without fear, instead of confining her world to a small manor and never leaving it for the rest of her life.

She wanted this kind of life.

(End of this chapter)